Five years. That's how long Coyote and her dad, Rodeo, have lived on the road in an old school bus, criss-crossing the nation. It's also how long ago Coyote lost her mom and two sisters in a car crash. Coyote hasn't been...
Grief
- Author:Gemeinhart, Dan.Summary:
- Author:Smith, HeatherSummary:
When the tsunami destroyed Makio's village, Makio lost his father. Sadly, he was not alone. Everyone lost someone the day the big wave came. With the villagers silenced by grief, Makio's anger at the ocean grows. Then one day his...
- Author:Picoult, JodiSummary:
The Hartes and the Golds have been neighbors for 18 years and are very close. So when Chris and Emily's friendship reaches the next level, nobody is surprised. Then one night, the hospital calls. Seventeen-year-old Emily is dead--...
- Author:Horack, SkipSummary:
A masterful depiction of a life driven off the rails by tragedy and sin — a man now summoned by the legacy of a beloved, lost brother to embark on a journey in search of understanding, happiness, and redemption. Haunted by the...
- Author:Andrews, Mary KaySummary:
Mary Kay Andrews, the New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads, delivers her next summer listen in The Newcomer. Letty Carnahan is in trouble. She's on the run from New York City; she has her four-year-old...
- Author:Garvin, EileenSummary:
Forty-four-year-old Alice Holtzman is stuck in a dead-end job, bereft of family, and now reeling from the unexpected death of her husband. Alice has begun having panic attacks whenever she thinks about how her life hasn't turned...
- Author:Blair, KateSummary:
Silva and her family visit her grandfather, only to find his health has taken a bad turn. As they struggle with this news, Silva seeks escape in books – at the local library.
But she gets more than she bargained for when a magpie... - Author:Gunraj, AndreaSummary:
Partially inspired by the real-life experiences of a former resident of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children, The Lost Sister bravely explores the topics of child abuse, neglect, and abduction against a complex interplay of gender...
- Author:Lisle, Janet TaylorSummary:
Motherless Olivia and Nellie go to live with their elderly Great-Aunt Minty, who knows little about children, but a lot about her overgrown garden. Then one day, Olivia finds an old teacup in a flowerbed, and later, an old story about...
- Author:Nuzum, K. A.Summary:
In wintry Colorado during the 1930s, eleven-year-old Dessa Dean mourns the death of her beloved mother, but the arrival of an injured dog and the friendship they form is just what they need to change their lives forever.
- Author:Grey, EmmaSummary:
A December Indie Next Pick A Book of the Month Selection and Book of the Year Nominee A Washington Post Noteworthy Book. You may never stop loving the one you lost. But you can still find love again. Kate is a bit of a mess. Two years...
- Author:Lucas, FionaSummary:
Spencer was Anna's husband, her best friend, her rock. She thought their love would last forever. When he was killed in an accident three years ago, Anna's world was shattered. On New Year's Eve Anna calls Spencer's...
- Author:Yoshimoto, BananaSummary:
A young woman tries to start a new life in Tokyo after the death of her mother, but finds herself mostly staring out her window, slowly noticing that there is a young man across the street staring out his window. The two begin a...
- Author:Louis, Lia.Summary:
A Goodreads Most Anticipated Romance A heartwarming novel about hope after loss as a young widow receives mysterious messages of love from the "must-buy author" (Jodi Picoult) of Eight Perfect Hours. Sparkly and charming...
- Author:Holland-Batt, SarahSummary:
With electrifying boldness, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father's Parkinson's Disease, and a daughter forged by grief. Opening and closing with startling...
- Author:Oakley, ColleenSummary:
Sometimes all you need is one person to really see you. Piper Parrish's life on Frick Island-a tiny, remote town smack in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay-is nearly perfect. Well, aside from one pesky detail: Her beloved husband,...
- Author:Brenner, JamieSummary:
When a young widow's reclusive life in a charming beach town is interrupted by a surprise visitor, she is forced to reckon with dark secrets about her family, her late husband, and the past she tried to leave behind. Lauren Adelman...
- Author:Andrews, Mary KaySummary:
Summer begins with Mary Kay Andrews in this delightful summer read about flipping houses and finding true love. Hattie Kavanaugh went to work helping clean up restored homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at eighteen; married the...
- Author:James, John W.Summary:
Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect on your capacity for happiness. Drawing from their own stories, as well as from others, the authors illustrate what grief is and how it is possible to recover and regain...
- Author:Williams, MaiyaSummary:
Thirteen-year-old Rowan and his eleven-year-old sister Nina, still bereft by the death of their mother the year before, experience an unusual adventure through time when they come to stay with their two eccentric great-aunts in a small...